Symphonie diagonale

Marinos Koutsomichalis

One of my favourite abstract films of all times. A must-see for visual music enthusiasts.

Max Seqgar

Similar Richter etchings would grace the covers of Dada poetry booklets. It's wonderful watching them in motion.

Stefan Drees

It's always an interesting experience to watch this film from the musical point of view: Eggeling tries to build motfis and an equivalent to musical phrases by using different kind of shapes and movements. I highly appreciate the music to this film by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth (it can be found on YouTube): It not only transforms these elements into sounds but also highlights the impression of Eggeling's film.

EdieEmm

Conventional sensory divisions mask the underlying synesthesia that rules the word of our minds. Here, Eggeling conducts the beginnings of an experiment in the possibilities of cinema to dissolve those arbitrary impositions of rationality (dying, unfortunately, before it was done.) Philosophy via stop-motion. Impossible to rate.

HSBilly

there's a music silently playing in my mind while seeing this symphonie

dAlton Anthony

these were important times for experimental film, but this feels very cold and classical to me. I prefer the warmth of Man Ray and the French school....but I respect this nonetheless.

Marco Bevilacqua

A short experimental film, but more a practice of art expression and an interesting way to enhance the composition line/shape. It feels like a scientific study of human perception.

MarcusArcus

2.5